Front Row failing to display iTunes content stored on external drives: related news

Front Row failing to display iTunes content stored on external drives

Users may store their iTunes library on one drive and have folders of other media content on other drives, but wish to display them all in Front Row. This has been attempted by placing aliases of the external media folders into their "iTunes Music" folder so Front Row sees them.

Sync your iTunes libraries

iTunes can easily share its content over your local network. But if you want a complete copy of your media library on more than one Mac, you’ll need to synchronize some files. However, merely copying, say, a folder full of AAC files from one Mac to another is not enough; you must also copy the iTunes Library files containing metadata, playlists, and other important information. And therein lies the rub: If you’ve changed the contents of iTunes on both Macs, merely copying the iTunes Library files in one direction or the other (manually or with a file-synchronization utility) won’t synchronize their contents, so neither iTunes library will be correct. For example, songs present on both Macs’ hard disks may not actually show up in iTunes on one Mac or the other, and one Mac’s playlists might entirely overwrite the other’s.

iTunes K-12 launches with resources for students, parents

Since its launch a little over a year ago, iTunes U has grown into a large collection of educational material and resources from over 70 colleges and universities worldwide. Yesterday, at the National Education Computing Conference in San Antonio, Texas, iTunes K-12 was announced as a service on the iTunes Store, similar to that of iTunes U, but aimed at primary and secondary education. "K-12 on iTunes U" is a modest start in comparison to what iTunes U has become, but with 11 entities already, it's a start.

iTunes Movie Store Now Available Down Under

"Apple® today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are now available on the iTunes® Store in Australia (www.itunes.com/au) and in New Zealand (www.itunes.com/nz). Movie purchases and rentals feature iTunes’ legendary ease of use, which makes discovering and enjoying movies as simple and easy as buying music on iTunes has always been. The iTunes Store in Australia and New Zealand feature over 700 films for rent or purchase, with new release titles available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release, including favorites such as “National Treasure 2,â€� “Jumper,â€� “27 Dresses,â€� “Cloverfield,â€� “Vantage Pointâ€� and â

Myxer Announces Turnkey Mobile Content Syndication Solution - 'Myxer Select'

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Myxer, the leader in ad-supported mobile content, today announced the new Myxer Select program for mobile handset manufacturers, wireless network operators, and web destinations. The program provides them with the ability to create a customized mobile content store, selecting content from the world's largest assembled collection of mobile content, with over one million items. Myxer Select partners can be up and running with their own mobile content download site (on the web and/or mobile web) in a matter of days. Myxer Select is delivered over the award-winning Myxer Mobile Platform, a robust, scalable and proven mobile content delivery platform that currently delivers over 22 million downloads per month, at a rate of over 8 mobile downloads per second.

Reusable Syndicated Media Portlets: An Example of Simplified Content Presentation

In the early days of the World Wide Web, the battle cry of successful sites was "Content is king!" Web pages needed to be content heavy to gain rankings on the search engines and draw visitors, and the content needed to be updated regularly to bring those visitors back. As the technology evolved and business models changed, functionality and interactivity gained importance in capturing clicks. Portals provide the most manageable framework for organizing and presenting both functionality and content. But, "most manageable" isn't the same is "easily manageable" and content is still a key part of a successful portal. For portal developers and administrators, this means that the content for a portal will grow, both in source and type.

Content driven websites

There are lots of different types of websites out there - product sites, marketing brochure sites, educational sites, etc. But the ones that people keep coming back to are content driven websites. As Website-Content-Providers.com explains, content driven sites are websites that are filled with content about a specific theme. And the more content you have on that theme the more interesting your site will be to readers.

Bands Avoiding iTunes For The Wrong Reasons

This is hardly a new phenomenon, but the Wall Street Journal is noting that some bands and some record labels are avoiding putting music on iTunes (or in some cases, pulling music off iTunes) in an effort to force people to buy the full album, rather than just a few tracks. There are plenty of reasons to dislike iTunes, but it seems hard to believe that this does anything positive for the bands in question. The article quotes Kid Rock's manager, who compares apples to oranges, by pointing out that people who are on iTunes sell more single songs than albums, but that's rather meaningless in comparing to an artist (like Kid Rock) who's not on iTunes at all. Not putting your music where people want it is only going to piss them off.

iTunes U launches K-12 educational content

Apple iTunes"Previously reserved just for college and university material, iTunes U is now opening its doors to content suitable for students between kindergarten and grade 12 as well as their parents and teachers," Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider.

iTunes 7.7: shuts down when attempting to access the iTunes store

Some iTunes users have noticed that upon accessing the iTunes store the program will shut down and give an "iTunes unexpectedly quit" error message along with a crash report.

How Copyright Is Holding Back The Creative Class

While not enough people recognize it, the real purpose of copyright law is to provide an incentive for the creation of more content. The government felt that there was a market failure, where not enough "content" would be produced without a limited monopoly, and thus, copyright was born. However, that happened back in the day when creating content wasn't easy. You pretty much had to go through a professional process. These days, thanks to new technologies, creating content is exceptionally easy -- and thus, a big part of the very basis for copyright no longer makes sense. We're drowning in content -- and it's not because of the "incentive" of copyright. There are plenty of incentives for creating content these days and very few have anything to do with copyright.

iTunes 7.7

This version of iTunes also adds support for the new Remote application for the iPhone and iPod touch, available on the App Store, which allows those devices to control iTunes remotely. You can control the music on iTunes or Apple TV, see the album artwork on your remote, search your iTunes library and control your AirTunes speakers.

Apple's Polish Joke: Polish iTunes Store Offers No Tunes

itunes.pngApple just expanded the list of international iTunes stores on its website, adding countries such as Poland, Qatar and the Czech Republic. The problem? None of these countries can buy anything through the iTunes store. Rather, they're just setting up the infrastructure so the residents of those countries can have access to iPhone Apps. What a sad, lonely iTunes store that must be. No music, no videos, no podcasts. Just Super Monkeyball and a few hundred to-do list apps. [iFun.de]

iTunes Royalties: Nothing Like the Old Days for Classic Acts

Kevin Maney writes: A Wall Street Journal story seems to imply that keeping songs off iTunes is the equivalent of plugging a leak. Instead of buying songs off Apple's dominant service, fans are forced to slog to a store and buy the physical CD, so CD sales are better than if an album gets released both on CD and iTunes. And since the royalties on a CD are way more than royalties on iTunes -- because, for one thing, when you buy a CD you're forced to buy all the songs on the album that otherwise suck -- artists like Kid Rock and the Eagles are making a calculation that they should run from iTunes the way you'd run from a buffalo stampede.

Apple releases iTunes 7.7

This version of iTunes also adds support for the new Remote application for the iPhone and iPod touch, available on the App Store, which allows those devices to control iTunes remotely. You can control the music on iTunes or Apple TV, see the album artwork on your remote, search your iTunes library and control your AirTunes speakers.

Apple releases iTunes 7.7

This version of iTunes also adds support for the new Remote application for the iPhone and iPod touch, available on the App Store, which allows those devices to control iTunes remotely. You can control the music on iTunes or Apple TV, see the album artwork on your remote, search your iTunes library and control your AirTunes speakers.

PC World doofus blames Apple for lack of DRM-free music in iTunes Store

"iTunes gave us the 99-cent song download, thus paving the way for honest people to buy music at a fair price. So why does the iTunes Store still employ digital rights management (DRM) for the majority of songs in its library? Blaming the record labels no longer holds water: AmazonMP3 and Rhapsody are among a growing number of services selling DRM-free MP3s from all the major labels, not just EMI. At least iTunes no longer charges extra for the latter's "iTunes Plus" selections, but why hasn't Apple given DRM the heave-ho once and for all? At least customers have alternatives now," Rick Broida reports for PC World.

Sources: No iTunes subscriptions inbound

Regular shoppers at the iTunes Store should not expect any announcements on the content side of the equation in the near future, rumors indicate. CNET cites anonymous sources, who say that people should not expect Apple to announce any new music content at its special iPod event on September 9th. More specifically, the sources claim they are certain Apple will not introduce a long-rumored subscription option for iTunes.

New Easy RSS Content Generator 3.1

The ExtraLabs Software company, a developer of software for creating RSS feeds, announced the new release of the Easy RSS Content Generator. Easy RSS Content Generator has a built-in FTP client, an automatic word replacement dictionary that will allow users to increase the uniqueness of the created pages, and a built-in tool for prompting keywords. Easy RSS Content Generator can be used to search for RSS feeds and add them. Easy RSS Content Generator is compatible with all operating systems of the Windows family (95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, NT, Vista) and supports all RSS, RDF,

Google unveils Android Market content distribution system

Google has unveiled details of the Android Market open content distribution system on the Android Developers Blog. This will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered mobile devices. Developers will be able to offer their content on an open system hosted by Google. This system will have a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. Developers need to register as a merchant, upload and describe their content and then publish it. Developers can expect the first Android-based handsets to be enabled with a beta version of Android Market.

Italian Prosecutors to Charge Google Execs over Third-Party Content

Four Google executives may be standing trial over failing to monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site. It was reported that Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a two-year old case against the Google employees over a video uploaded to Google's Italian site. Prosecutors are expected to charge the executives for defamation and violation of privacy after they failed to control the content of the site. Under EU rules and Italian law, the company is not required to monitor third party content on its sites, but takes down any offensive material when it is notified.

Apple Patent: Stream Your Entire iTunes Library From Anywhere

Apple patents don't always bear fruit, but this one seems like it'll happen, and soon, actually. It's for accessing your entire iTunes library from anywhere—streamed to your iPhone or touch either via Wi-Fi or over the air. Basically, this future iTunes will sync the metadata for your whole library, and all the music and videos stored back on your computer ("virtual media items") will be totally integrated with the content actually on your device, so it'd be just like having your entire library on your phone.

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